Category Operations and Channel Development Manager

Job Description

• Create category strategy development and guidelines, focusing on pack and place.
• Analyze sales data, and consumer and shopper insight to identify opportunities in maximizing business across existing and new channels.
• Allocate and manage promotional budget across channels to ensure optimal return on investment.
• Provide promotion guidelines and rules based on learning from post-evaluation and deliver category objectives.
• Suggest price, promotion strategy, and mechanism for new product launch and brand activation campaign.
• Coordinate with cross-functions to implement category plans across channels.
• Evaluate and review implemented marketing activities for developing plans.
• Forecasting and targeting, volume delivery, and gap closing on category level.
• Owner of S&OP from the customer development side.
• Owner of Visibility and all trade Invest – TTS.
• Responsible for distributors' P&L – KPI definition and monthly tracking.
• SFI Planner and executor.
• NRM owner through channels.
• Planning all innovation and execution of NPI at launch time.
• Pre-& post promotions evaluation through estimated ROI & market feedback, competitor threats as well as market data readings when applicable.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Business Management, or related fields.
• 10 years of related work experience and at least 2 years in a managerial role.
• Proficiency in English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and PowerPoint.